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A Debugging Odyssey

Oxide and Friends

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Debugging Cockroach-Db Memory Corruption Problems

The Go code that was causing this in the Go memory allocator wasn't even on the scene. It's like, you know, there's the detective analogy for debugging in general, but there's something especially fuzzy about the idea that it might be a problem with CockroachDB. Dave: There were so, so, so many of these possibilities that obviously all turned out to be blind alleys. The thing that really I felt helped a lot was when, actually, Robert gave me the kick I needed.

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